Sentences with phrase «mechanisms of memory»

Located in the political and artistic histories of Palestine, The Wandering Singer of Tales will investigate trauma and exile and the mechanisms of memory through photography, painting and collage.

ARTIST STATEMENT: In this body of work, I ponder the mechanisms of memory and study the power of images by appropriating and re-presenting historical media related to the First World War.

The results suggest that nicotine and cocaine hijack similar mechanisms of memory on first contact to create long - lasting changes in a person's brain.

This includes proposals that address mechanisms of memory or cognition at the synaptic, cellular, molecular, genetic or behavioral level in animals, including humans.

Molecular basis of scouting behaviors in honey bees Zhengzheng Liang, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA Dissociating epigenetic mechanisms of memory in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex of rats Krista Mitchnick, Department of Psychology, Collaborative Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada Determining the heritability of locomotor sensitization to ethanol and its relationship to ethanol's positive motivational effects in mice David Linsenbardt, Indiana Alcohol Research Center and Department of Psychology, Indiana University — Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Rufy1 or Hnrnph1 is a likely quantitative trait gene for methamphetamine sensitivity Camron Bryant, Laboratory of Addiction Genetics, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Massechusetts, USA

Research at Trondheim into the mechanisms of memory goes back at least to 1996, when the Mosers arrived there from the University of Oslo.

While his initial goal is to develop the technology, in the long run, Wang hopes to use the technique to answer questions about the molecular mechanisms of memory, such as which receptor subtypes contribute to long - term memory formation.

Our research is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of memory and how these mechanisms are disrupted in a variety of cognitive disorders.

Such effects alone could explain why memory seems to falter with age, without there being any weakening of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory itself.

A drug that reduced such feelings could easily result in an apparent improvement in memory while having no effect on the actual mechanisms of memory.

Dot - counting mice running in a virtual reality maze help scientists uncover mechanisms of memory formation and decision - making.

At a time when brain researchers thought nothing could be learned from invertebrates, Kandel stunned the fledgling world of neuroscience by uncovering the mechanisms of memory in sea slugs, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 2000.

A year and a half later, Josselyn described these and other findings at the enormous annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience during a symposium she and Silva cochaired on «mechanisms of memory.»

«This is a step in understanding how the neuronal mechanisms of memory and early sensory experiences form brain circuits in the early developmental stage, not only in birds, but also in humans and other species.»

Gravity existed before Newton, the speed of light was constant before we could measure it, and the mechanisms of memory are working now, even though we can't fully explain them.

The protein's role in the pathway leading to memory impairment, however, remained unclear until scientists from IMCB utilised live - cell imaging techniques to elucidate the mechanism of memory impairment and illustrated how SNX27 attributes to synaptic dysfunction.

To deepen this segmentation and reactivation mechanism of memories, the researchers designed an experiment in order to recreate in a simplified way these «boundary events»; the participants had to observe a sequence of images of the same category — for example, human faces — that was interrupted by an element of a different category — for example, an object.

High soy consumption actually blocks this mechanism of memory formation (4, 5).

According to the info posted on her previous gallery's website, Wanklyn «has long been interested in the relationship between form, shape, space, the limitation of the canvas surface, the idea of speed and the mechanism of memory.

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His treatment of tradition, moreover, explicates the mechanisms by which communities of memory and individual identities are linked.

The point of central importance in these developments for a philosophy of man is that man - made physical mechanisms are no longer limited to rigid patterns of mechanical action, but are now admitted to the domain of sensitive response, memory, and even of decision - making — activities that traditionally have been thought the exclusive province of minded organisms.

There was no forgetting, no Korsakov's then, nor did it seem possible or imaginable that there should be; for he was no longer at the mercy of a faulty and fallible mechanism — that of meaningless sequences and memory traces — but was absorbed in an act, an act of his whole being, which carried feeling and meaning in an organic continuity and unity, a continuity and unity so seamless it could not permit any break.

A man's worth is told by his memory of the ancients, and not just by his modern mechanisms» [pp. 120, 122].

The blackest cloud of interest - rate history - at least in recent memory - floats 16 years ago this month, when the UK crashed out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday.

University of Tsukuba - led researchers show that moderate exercise may improve hippocampal memory dysfunction caused by type 2 diabetes and that enhanced transport of lactate to neurons may be the underlying mechanism

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

The discovery of a new mechanism that controls the way nerve cells in the brain communicate with each other to regulate our learning and long - term memory could have major benefits to understanding how the brain works and what goes wrong in neurodegenerative disorders such as epilepsy and dementia.

Dr. Michael M. Yartsev, Research Associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University receives the US$ 25,000 research prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammalian brain.

A group of researchers at Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University and RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences jointly clarified the mechanism for inducing germinal - center B cells» differentiation into memory B cells, immune cells that remember antigens, at the molecular level.

«Mechanism for inducing memory B cell differentiation elucidated: Efficient induction of immune cells that remember antigens will lead to the development of new vaccines.»

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

«Understanding the mechanisms that promote aberrant neurogenesis caused by traumatic brain injury and subsequent seizures may open new therapeutic avenues to prevent epilepsy and associated memory problems caused by impact,» said senior author Dr. Jenny Hsieh, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and a member of the UT Southwestern Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham report the discovery of a novel mechanism in the brain involved in the formation of memory and learning.

The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science researchers» findings are important to better understanding the underlying mechanisms of age - related memory loss in humans.

Depue says that if the results can be replicated in psychiatric patients suffering from disorders such as clinical depression and PTSD, they could help scientists «in understanding where a dysfunction lies... and specifically, in developing psychopharmaceutical approaches to better target the suppression of [the] emotional memory mechanism.»

According to Hope, «These ensemble - specific silent synapses may be one of the mechanisms by which neuronal ensembles are modified to store memories.»

A new study in Biological Psychiatry suggests that alterations in silent synapses, inactive connections between neurons, could be the neural mechanism underlying the formation of these drug - related memories.

In spite of this sizable gap, certain vitally important processes such as memory formation use similar cellular mechanisms in humans, mice and flies, as the researchers» experiments were able to prove.

«We have already demonstrated that these two synapses process different types of information that in turn is likely to comprise the cellular mechanisms for memory encoding and retrieval at these synapses» explains Hardy Hagena.

The study is part of a research project led by professors Dominique de Quervain and Andreas Papassotiropoulos at the University of Basel, which aims to increase the understanding of neuronal and molecular mechanisms of human memory and thereby facilitate the development of new treatments.

The strategy used by infants should not be seen as a limitation for lexical learning, but rather as a feature of human memory that interacts with language learning mechanisms.

The researchers identified two parallel mechanisms: One the one hand, the protein adducin stimulates the growth of synapses and therefore also helps to retain memory; on the other hand, the musashi protein actively inhibits the stabilization of these synapses and thus facilitates memory loss.

It is also suggested that further elucidation of the mechanism linking mastication and brain function can lead to novel treatments and preventive measures for memory / learning dysfunction in the future.

These are the main findings of a study carried out at SISSA and recently published in Child Development that uncovers the early mechanisms of word memory.

Why couldn't the fly's mechanism [of attention] be directed to a succession of its memories?»

A different possible mechanism, proposed by Juan Salinas, a lecturer specializing in the neuropharmacology of learning and memory at the University of Texas at Austin, resembles the neurobiological hypothesis, given that ADHD involves a dysfunctional release of dopamine in the brain.

Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have identified a molecular mechanism that operates in memory T cells that could be manipulated to produce and maintain more memory T cells in the body, a finding that could improve vaccinations and cancer immunotherapies.

Now, in an article published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, a team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Stanford University School of Medicine describe the use of a BDNF loop domain mimetic to improve motor function and object location memory in a mouse model of Rett syndrome.

Kessler Foundation scientists have shown that working memory may be an underlying mechanism of cognitive reserve in multiple sclerosis (MS).

Now, researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have identified a molecular mechanism that operates in memory T cells that could be manipulated to produce and maintain more memory T cells in the body, a finding that could improve vaccinations and cancer immunotherapies.